Back to All Events

Family Pasta Workshop with Leta

  • Cookshop 2625 Southeast 26th Avenue Portland, OR, 97202 United States (map)

Come spend a morning at Cookshop learning how to make pasta! Our pasta guru, Leta Merrill, will be leading this class, and will show us how to make several different shapes using dough containing flour and eggs. This workshop will be very family friendly, and is great for kids as young as 4.

Please note, this class is priced per person. Please purchase a spot for each person attending.

What to expect:

  • Class will include all instruction, tools, recipes and ingredients.

  • Our dough will contain eggs and wheat flour.

  • There will be some demo, and lots of time for hands-on pasta shaping.

  • Each participant will leave with a box of the pasta they made during class.

  • Please note, this class is priced per person. Please purchase a spot for each person attending.

About our instructor:

Leta Merrill is a chef, mother, teacher, and pastaia. She discovered her love of pasta as a child over Sunday suppers at her Sicilian great-grandmother’s home. She decided to follow her passion for food and cooking and enrolled at the Oregon Culinary Institute. Upon graduating, she took a job as pasta cook at Union Square Cafe in New York, one of the city’s most popular restaurants. There, she honed her skills, grew a thicker skin, and continued her passion for pasta. Leta now lives in Portland, and spends her time cooking, eating, traveling, teaching pasta workshops, and preparing pasta from her designer kitchen. You can follow her work, sign up for workshops, and order custom pasta via her website and follow her adventures in pasta on Instagram @pastamaia.

About our instructor:

Leta Merrill is a chef, mother, teacher, and pastaia. She discovered her love of pasta as a child over Sunday suppers at her Sicilian great-grandmother’s home. She decided to follow her passion for food and cooking and enrolled at the Oregon Culinary Institute. Upon graduating, she took a job as pasta cook at Union Square Cafe in New York, one of the city’s most popular restaurants. There, she honed her skills, grew a thicker skin, and continued her passion for pasta. Leta now lives in Portland, and spends her time cooking, eating, traveling, teaching pasta workshops, and preparing pasta from her designer kitchen. You can follow her work, sign up for workshops, and order custom pasta via her website and follow her adventures in pasta on Instagram @pastamaia.

Previous
Previous
February 1

Chili with Chef Zach

Next
Next
February 2

Intro to Bread with Chef Luca